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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Good Life Continues, Chapters Five through Ten.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How, according to the Nearings, can you build whole, living, balanced soil?
(a) By burning leaves.
(b) By burning areas of the forest.
(c) By composting.
(d) By using soil from the forest only.

2. What did the Nearings eat from?
(a) Wooden bowls.
(b) China.
(c) Plastic plates.
(d) Plates.

3. What, according to the Nearings, is the food furthest removed from the soil?
(a) Fresh dairy from a neighbor.
(b) Cooked caracasses of beasts, birds, and fish.
(c) The farmer's market produce.
(d) The produce in your grocery store.

4. What did the Nearings compare their gardening style to?
(a) The Russian way.
(b) The Japanese way.
(c) The Iowa way.
(d) The Chinese way.

5. What two farms did the Nearings buy when they got to Vermont?
(a) The Ellonen place and the Hoard place.
(b) The Madingly family place.
(c) The Sandusky farm and the Hodges place.
(d) The Vermont farm.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was served nearly every day for lunch at the Nearings?

2. What did the Nearings find about growing pole beans and sweet peas?

3. When the Nearings talked about being vegetarians, which neighbors changed their habits and also became vegetarians?

4. What purpose do the stones serve in the greenhouse?

5. What did the Nearings grow under a heavy hay mulch that required no hoeing, no bugs, no spraying, and almost no digging?

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